Miles screwed up by getting inside Lee's head, and isnt remorseful

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"I just feel like I could have been given the chance, you know," Lee said, "had an opportunity to come in and get something going, you know, it is what it is."

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Post-game, much speculation has surrounded head coach Les Miles's decision to keep Jefferson in for the entirety of the game and Lee still hasn't been given any reason for that decision. "No, as soon as that game was over, I headed out to Arizona

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"Honestly, I don't know if anyone ever came up to me and was just like 'you suck' or 'you're terrible' but there were times when I would hear someone when I was standing there and they didn't know I was there, didn't know I was around and I could hear them talking and that kind of, that's not a very fun feeling." Lee was also ripped apart on message boards, and though he completely refrains from reading them, he still had to sometimes hear what people had to say. "My grandad, he's bad at that, he's a message board reader and he'd always call me and text me 'hey, how about this?' and I'm like 'I can't be worrying about that, I have enough stuff on my plate as it is!'"

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Lee still faced the competitive factor of football and could never get quite too comfortable in his starting role, especially after Jefferson was reinstated to the team. "That was tough again. After four games of being the starter and having Jordan come back, it was kind of one of those deals where you know, him coming in for a series or two it was kind of…I don't want to say frustrating, but you felt like you were getting the job done and bringing another guy in…

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so I just kind of knew how it was going to be. I couldn't worry about all that other stuff, it would just bring me down, bring the team down, so all I could do was do my job when I was in the game. That's really all I could do."

How did he manage to internalize everything? "I don't know. I mean, it's just something you just realize is what's going to happen, how it's going to be, and you just have to accept it and do your role, do your part. But it was tough, don't get me wrong, it was very tough." Lee knew that in order to continue to play, he'd have to play extremely well. Each week was a competition

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"I went home to the hotel afterwards, was able to talk with my dad. I've got a very supportive family so that was great. We were a little frustrated because we didn't understand, we didn't really know what was going on, but you know, I didn't really have time to sit and sulk about it. Had about thirty, forty minutes of that, me and my dad talked, and then I was off to Arizona. I have another chapter to write.

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